History 427: History of Soviet Russia Winter 2007 Section 1: TR, 1:40-3:00 p.m. Bldg. 52-A11 Prof. Tom Trice Office: Faculty Office Bldg. 47-25P Office Hours: MW, 2:00-4:00; TR, 12:00-1:00 Contact: 756-2724; ttrice@calpoly.edu Course Description: This course provides an overview of Russian history from the revolutionary overthrow of imperial Russia’s tsarist regime in 1917 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Major themes include the Bolshevik (Communist) Party’s attempts to consolidate its power and build the world’s first socialist society, economic, social, and cultural reform, political terror and resistance, World War II, the Cold War, and the dissident movement. This course requires that each student consistently take an active role in discussing and writing about Russia’s past and its relationship to the present. In keeping with this goal, you will be asked to: • • • • Demonstrate knowledge of historical facts, themes, and ideas Demonstrate the ability to reason through analysis and synthesis of historical evidence Demonstrate the ability to communicate historical knowledge and reasoning through discussion, debate, and writing Assess the notion that history is rewritten by each generation according to the needs, aspirations, and frames of reference of each ensuing age Required Texts: Natalya Baranskaya. A Week Like Any Other (Blackboard) Eugenia S. Ginzburg. Journey into the Whirlwind Ronald Grigor Suny, ed. The Structure of Soviet History James von Geldern and Richard Stites, eds. Mass Culture in Soviet Russia Additional readings and handouts will be available via Blackboard and online databases. Course Requirements Assignments marked with an asterisk (*) are not required of graduate students. Class Participation Analytical Essay* Film Reviews (2 @ 5% each) Exams (2 @ 20% each) 20% 30% 10% 40% Class Participation (20%) is an essential part of this class. Attendance alone does not constitute participation. Come to class having read all assigned material thoroughly and be prepared to discuss it in a thoughtful manner. Analytical Essay (30%) of 12-15 pages on some aspect of Soviet history (1917-1991) fulfills the research unit for this class. See Attachment A for specific guidelines regarding format and documentation. Students will select a research topic in consultation with me during office hours, so plan to meet with me at least once during the first two weeks of the quarter to discuss your interests and ideas. See Attachment B below for a list of websites which may assist you in identifying potential research topics, including two exceptionally useful bibliographies. DUE: Friday, 9 March by noon. The penalty for late essays will be 5% of the value of the assignment per day. Please leave essays with department secretary. Film Reviews (2 @ 5% each) (10%) of 2-4 pages. See Attachment C below for specific guidelines. Some films are available from Insomniac Video, Blockbusters, etc. You may also borrow copies from me. DUE: within one week of the class period for which the film is assigned. Exams (2 @ 20% each) (40%) will consist of essays based on reading assignments and lectures. Sample questions will be distributed at least one week prior to each exam. Exam #1: Thursday, 15 February Exam #2: Friday, 23 March (this is not a cumulative exam) Graduate Students only: In lieu of the analytical essay and film reviews, you will be expected to complete the following assignments. Historiographic Essays (3 @ 10% each) of 6-8 pages each using selections from both required and recommended readings for any given class period. See Attachment D for specific guidelines. DUE: at the beginning of the class for which the material is assigned (no exceptions) Abbreviations, etc.: MC: Mass Culture in Soviet Russia, 1917-1953 Suny: The Structure of Soviet History We will also be making use of documents (video clips, photos, government documents, etc.) available at the following website, which requires registration: SM: Seventeen Moments at http://www.soviethistory.org/ Schedule of Topics & Readings: Date Topic T 1/9 Late Imperial Russia, c. 1861-1917 Recommended readings: Figes, Orlando. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1894-1921. (1996). DK260 .F54 1996 R 1/11 “The Freest Country in the World”: Revolutions of 1917 Film: The Revolutionary (1917) Required readings: Suny: xi-xvii; 3-47; 62-66 SM: 1917: The October Revolution Recommended readings: Chamberlin, William H. The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921. 1935. Vol. 1, chs. 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14. DK265 .C43 Clements, Barbara Evans. Bolshevik Women. 1997. Ch. 3. Corney, Frederick C. Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution. 2004. DK265 .C643 2004 Daniels, Robert V. Red October: The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. 1967. Ch. 11. DK265 .D27 Koenker, Diane P., and William G. Rosenberg. Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917. 1989. Ch. 2 and conclusion. Lenin, Vladimir I. The State and Revolution. 1917 (1932). DK254.L3 G62 1932 or HX314 .L352 Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. 1976. Chs. 15, 16. DK265.8.L4 R27 1976 Trotsky, Leon. History of the Russian Revolution. 1935. Ch. 8. DK265 .T773 1974 T 1/16 “Kto kogo?”: The Civil War Required readings: Suny: 48-62; 67-86; 103-117; 289-94 MC: xi-xvi; 6-32 SM: 1921: Kronstadt Uprising Fitzpatrick Sheila. “The Civil War as a Formative Experience.” In Bolshevik Culture, 57-76. 1985. (Blackboard). Recommended readings: Avrich, Paul. Kronstadt 1921. 1970. DK265.8.K7 A88 Carr, Edward H. The Bolshevik Revolution. 1952. Vol. 2, ch. 17. Chamberlin, William. The Russian Revolution. 1935. Vols. 2, chs. 25, 40. DK265 .C43 Clements, Barbara Evans. Bolshevik Women. 1997. Ch. 4. Figes, Orlando. Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-1921. 1989. Koenker, Diane P.,William G. Rosenberg and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds. Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War. 1989. McAuley, Mary. Bread and Justice: State and Society in Petrograd, 1917-1922. 1991. Raleigh, Donald J. Experiencing Russia’s Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922. 2002. R 1/18 Smychka: Village and City under NEP, 1921-28 Film: Bed and Sofa (1926) 73 mins. Required readings: Suny: 89-93; 117-120; 124-130 MC: 32-36; 54-68; 70-71; 74-84; 90-112; 118-120 Recommended readings: Ball, Alan M. Russia’s Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929. 1987. Daniels, Robert V. The Conscience of the Revolution. 1960. Danilov, Viktor. Rural Russia under the New Regime. 1988. Trans. Orlando Figes. Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Alexander Rabinowitch and Richard Stites, eds. Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture. 1991. DK266 .R82 1991 Naiman, Eric. Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology. 1997. DK266 .N22 1997 Siegelbaum, Lewis H. Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929. 1992. Ward, Chris. Russia’s Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921-1929. 1990. T 1/23 Grazhdanin(a): Forging Identities--Class & Gender Film: Strike (1925) 94 mins. Required readings: Suny: 130-37; 164-177 MC: 3-6; 32-52; 54-70; 85-86 Kollontai, Aleksandra. “New Woman” from The New Morality and the Working Class. 1920. (Available at www.marxists.org) __________. “Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle.” 1921. (Available at www.marxists.org) Peris, Daniel. “Soviet Atheism?” In Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless, 69-98. 1998. (Blackboard) Trotsky, Lev. “Vodka, the Church, and the Cinema.” Originally published in Pravda. 1923. (Available at www.marxists.org) Recommended readings: Bailes, Kendall. "Alexei Gastev and the Soviet Controversy over Taylorism, 1918-1924," Soviet Studies 29, 3 (1977):373-394. Chase, William J., Workers, Society and the Soviet Stale: Labor and Life in Moscow, 1918-1929. 1987. HD8530.M62 C43 1987 Clements, Barbara Evans. Bolshevik Women. 1997. Clements, Barbara Evans, et al., eds. Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. 2002. Goldman, Wendy Z.. Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. 1993. Gorsuch, Anne. Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents. 2000 Koenker, Diane P. “Men Against Women on the Shop Floor in NEP Russia: Gender and Class in the Socialist Workplace,” American Historical Review 100, 5 (Dec.1995): 1438-64. (JSTOR) Phillips, Laura L. The Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929. Siegelbaum, Lewis and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds. Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity. 1994. Stites, Richard. The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia. 1978. Chs. 10, 11. HQ1662 .S735 Wood, Elizabeth A. The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia. 1997. HX546 .W67 1997 R 1/25 Korenizatsiia: Forging Identities—Ethnicity & Nationality Film: Storm over Asia (1930) 128 mins. Required readings: Suny, 66-67; 93-102; 120-124 Northrop, Douglas. “Hujum: Unveiling Campaigns and Local Responses in Uzbekistan, 1927.” In Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-1953, 125-45. 2001. (Blackboard) Slezkine, Yuri. “The Soviet Union as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism.” Slavic Review 53, 2 (Summer 1994): 414-52. (JSTOR) Recommended readings: Carrère d’Encausse, Helene. The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917-1930. 1992. Hirsch, Francine. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. 2005. Massell, Gregory J. The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia, 1919-1929. 1974. Northrup, Douglas. Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia. 2004. Slezkine, Yuri. Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. 1994. GN673 (INTERNET) Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution. 1972. DK265.8.B3 S85 __________ et al., eds. A State of Nations: Empire and NationMaking in the Age of Lenin and Stalin. 2001. Weinberg, Robert. Stalin’s Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. 1998. DS135.R93 E989 1998 T 1/30 Kollektivizatsiia: The Peasant Question Film: Earth (1930) 54 mins. Required readings: Suny, 137-39; 209-22 MC: 142-56; 216-27 Viola, Lynne. “We Let the Women Do the Talking”: Bab’i Bunty and the Anatomy of Peasant Revolt. In Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin, 181-204. 1996. (Blackboard) Recommended readings: Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror. Rev. ed. 1990. DK267 .C649 1990 Davies, R. W. The Socialist Offensive: The Collectivization of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-30. 1980. HD1492.R9 D348 Lewin, Moshe. Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A Study of Collectivization. 1968. Viola, Lynne. The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization. 1987. HD1492.S65 V56 1987 __________. Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. 1996. HD1492.5.S65 V56 1996 R 2/1 Vpered!: Industrial Revolution Film: Turksib (1929) 58 mins. (VHS only) Required readings: Suny, 137-147; 151-154; 222-28; 294-297 MC: 156-61; 172-181; 190-201; 243-57 Recommended readings: Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin: A Political Biography. 1949. Ch. 8. Kuromiya, Hiroaki. Stalin’s Industrialization: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932. 1988. Lewin, Moshe. The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia. 1985. Chs. 4, 5, 9, 11. Rosenberg, William G., et al., eds. Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization. 1993. HC335.3 .S63 1993 Trotsky, Leon. The Revolution Betrayed. 1937. DK267 .T73 Tucker, Robert C. “Stalinism as Revolution from Above.” In Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation, 77-108. 1977. HX313 .S683 1977 T 2/6 Kulturnost’: Cultural Revolution Required readings: MC, 128-38; 163-71 Clark, Katerina. “Little Heroes and Big Deeds: Literature Responds to the First Five-Year Plan.” In Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931, 186-206. 1978. Recommended readings: Clark, Katerina. Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution. 1995. Chs. 4, 5. Gleason, Abbott, et al. Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. 1985. DK266.4 .B65 1985 Husband, William. “Godless Communists”: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1931. 2000. Kenez, Peter. The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization,1917-1929. 1985. DK266.3 .K43 1985 Mally, Lynn. Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia. 1990. __________. Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938. 2000. Stites, Richard. Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution. 1989. DK266.4 .S75 1989 Tumarkin, Nina. Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia. 1983. DK254.L46 T85 1983 Youngblood, Denise J. Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s. 1992. R 2/8 Vozhd’: History, Memory, and the Leader Cult Films: October (1927) or Three Songs of Lenin (1934) 102 / 62 mins. Required readings: MC: 86-89; 112-17; 123-27; 228-29; 291-96; 320-27 SM: 1924: Lenin’s Death and the Birth of the Lenin Cult Brooks, Jeffrey. “The Performance Begins.” In Thank You, Comrade Stalin: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War, 54-82. 2000. (Blackboard) Corney, Frederick C. “Truth and Poetry: The Tenth Anniversary of October,” 175-99. In Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution. 2004. (Blackboard) Recommended readings: Brooks, Jeffrey. Thank You, Comrade Stalin: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War. 2000. DK266.4 .B76 2000 Corney, Frederick C. Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution. 2004. Enteen, George M. “Marxist Historians during the Cultural Revolution.” In Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931, 154-168. 1978. Heer, Nancy Whittier. Politics and History in the Soviet Union. 1971. DK38 .H42 Tumarkin, Nina. Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia. 1983. DK254.L46 T85 1983 T 2/13 Radost’: Stalinism as a Way of Life Film: Jolly Fellows (1934) 89 mins. (VHS only). Required readings: Suny, 177-188; 228-231; 274-77; 280-85 MC, 182-190; 212-27; 237-43; 257-72; 287-91; 296-98 SM: 1934: Mass Production of Soviet Champagne 1936 Year of the Stakhanovite Recommended readings: Clark, Katerina. The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual. 1981. PG3098.4 .C4 1985 Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. 1999. HN523 .F57 1999 __________, ed. Stalinism: New Directions. 2000. DK267 .S6939 2000 __________. Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. 1994. HD1492.S65 F58 1994 Goldman, Wendy Z. Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia. 2002. HD6166 .G65 2002 Joravsky, David. The Lysenko Affair. 1970. HD1993 1970 .J6 McCannon, John. Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939. 1998. Petrone, Karen. Life Has Become More Joyous Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin. 2000. Siegelbaum, Lewis H.. Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941. 1988. Siegelbaum, Lewis H., and Andrei Sokolov. Stalinism as a Way of Life. 2001. R 2/15 Exam #1 (please bring a blue book) T 2/20 Vragi naroda: The Great Purges, 1936-39 Required readings: Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind (in its entirety) Suny, 158-162; 232-50 MC, 298-303; 328-30 SM: 1939: The Great Fergana Canal Recommended readings: Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: A Reassessment. 1990. DK267 .C649 1990 Davies, Sarah. Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia: Terror, Propaganda, and Dissent, 1934-1941. 1997. Ch. 8. Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin: A Political Biography. 1949. Ch. 8. Getty, J. Arch. The Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938. 1985. JN6598.K7 G43 1985 Getty, J. Arch, and Roberta T. Manning, eds., Stalinist Terror. 1993. Getty, J. Arch, and Oleg V. Naumov, eds. The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. 1999. DK267 .G45 1999 and DK267 .G45 1999eb Hellbeck, Jochen. “Writing the Self in a Time of Terror: Alexander Afinogenov’s Diary of 1937.” In Self and Story in Russian History, 69-93. 2000. DK189.2 .S45 2000 Kotkin, Stephen. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. 1995. Ch. 7. DK651.M159 K675 1995 or DK651.M159 (INTERNET) Medvedev, Roy A. Let History Judge. 1971. Chs. 4-6, 9, 10. Tucker, Robert C. Stalin in Power. 1990. Ch. 15. R 2/22 Otechestvo/Rodina: Great Fatherland War, 1941-45 Film: Shostakovich against Stalin (2005) Required readings: Suny, 264-285; 298-325 MC: 340-44; 378-80; 387-407 SM: 1943: Stalin Welcomes the Orthodox Metropolitans to the Kremlin Recommended readings: Barber, John and Mark Harrison. The Soviet Home Front, 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II. 1991. Brooks, Jeffrey. Thank You, Comrade Stalin: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War. 2000. Chs. 7, 8. DK266.4 .B76 2000 Gorodetsky, Gabriel. Grand Delusion: Stalin and the Invasion of Russia. 1999. Intro. and conc. Merridale, Catherine. Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia. 2002. Ch. 8. GT3256.2.A2 M47 2002 Tumarkin, Nina. The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia. 1994. Salisbury, Harrison E. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. 1969. D764.3.L4 S2 Von Geldern, James. “Radio Moscow: The Voice from the Center.” In Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia, ed. Richard Stites, 44-61. 1995. Weiner, Amir. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. 2001. Intro. and ch. 6. D744.55.W45 2001 Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941-1945. 1964. Pt. 2, chs. 1-3. D764 .W48 T 2/27 High Stalinism, 1945-1953 Film: East/West (1999) 125 min. Required readings: Suny, 162-164; 188-209; 251-263; 338-40 MC, 416-22; 450-53; 455-70; 486-89 SM: 1947: End of Rationing Churchill, Winston. “Sinews of Peace” (1946) http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1946/s460305a_e.htm Kennan, George. “Long Telegram” (1946) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/filmmore/reference/primary/kennan stelegram.html “On the Crimean Tatars.” 1946. http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/l2tartar.html Stalin, Josef. Reply to Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.html Stalin’s death exhibit! http://www.osa.ceu.hu/galeria/05031953/ Recommended readings: Djilas, Milovan. The New Class. 1957. HX365.5 .D49 Dunmore, Timothy. The Stalinist Command Economy: The Soviet State Apparatus and Economic Policy, 1945-53. 1980. Hahn, Werner G. Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53. 1982. Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956. 1996. Kozlov, Vladimir. A. “Denunciation and Its Functions in Soviet Governance, 1944-1953,” Journal of Modern History 68, 4 (1996): 867-98. (JSTOR) McCagg, William O., Jr. Stalin Embattled, 1943-1948. 1978. DK267 .M28 Nekrich, Aleksandr M.. The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the 2nd World War. 1978. DK33 .N44 1978 Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. 1996. DK267 .M3567 1996 and DK267 (INTERNET) Naimark, Norman. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949. 1995. Ch. 5. DD285 .N35 1995 Rubinstein, Joshua, et al., eds. Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. 2001. Taubman, William. Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Detente to Cold War. 1982. E183.8.S65 T38 1982 Zubkova, E. Iu. Russia After the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945-1957. 1998. R 3/1 Khrushchev’s “Transition to Communism,” 1953-64 Required readings: Suny, 329-38; 340-50 SM: 1954: Virgin Lands Campaign 1956: Khrushchev’s Secret Speech 1961: The Space Race Arzhak, Nikolai (pseud., Yuli Daniel). “This is Moscow Speaking.” 1962. (Blackboard) Yevtushenko, Evgenii. “Babi Yar.” 1961. http://boppin.com/poets/yevtushenko.htm Recommended readings: Alekseeva, Liudmilla. The Thaw Generation. 1990. Filtzer, Donald. Soviet Workers and de-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations, 1953-1964. 1992. Kozlov, Vladimir. Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years. 2001. McCauley, Martin. Khrushchev and the Development of Soviet Agriculture: The Virgin Lands Program 1953-1964. 1976. Medvedev, Roy A., and Zhores A. Medvedev. Khrushchev: The Years in Power. 1976. DK275.K5 M413 Reid, Susan E. “Cold War in the Kitchen: Gender and the DeStalinization of Consumer Taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev,” Slavic Review 61, 2 (Summer 2002): 211-52 (JSTOR) __________. “In the Name of the People: The Manège Affair Revisited.” Kritika 6, 4 (Fall 2005): 673-716. DK1 .K74 (INTERNET) Taubman, William. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. 2003. DK275.K5 T38 2003 T 3/6 Era of “Developed Socialism,” 1964-1982 Film: Moscow Does’nt Believe in Tears (1980) 150 mins. (VHS) Required readings: Baranskaya, A Week Like Any Other (in its entirety) Suny: 359-85 SM: 1968: Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1980: Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears Recommended readings: Kelly, Catriona. “‘Thank You for the Wonderful Book’: Soviet Child Readers and the Management of Children’s Reading, 1950-75.” Kritika 6, 4 (Fall 2005): 717-53. Lane, Christel. The Rites of Rulers: Ritual in Industrial Society, the Soviet Case. 1981. GT4856.A2 L36 Ledeneva, Alena V. Russia’s Economy of Favours. 1998. Mickiewicz, Ellen Propper. Media and the Russian Public. 1981. P92.R9 M5 Riordan, James. Sport in Soviet Society. 1980. GV623 .R56 Shipler, David K. Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams. 1983. DK29 .S524 1983 and DK29 .S524 1989 Weiner, Douglas R.. A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev. 1999. GE199.R8 W45 1999 R 3/8 Dissonance at Home and Abroad: Dissidents, Nationalists, Refusniks & Feminists Required readings: Suny, 350-58; 385-88; 393-99 On Trial: The Soviet State versus “Abram Tertz” and “Nikolai Arzhak”. 1966. (Blackboard) Sakharov, Andrei. Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom. 1968. (Blackboard) “Telegram from Sakharov.” 1971. http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/ac2sakh.html “Treatment of Dissidents in the ‘Years of Stagnation’.” 1967. http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/dissiden.html Handouts Recommended readings: Carrere d'Encausse, Helene. Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt. 1980. DK274 .C2813 Grant, Bruce. In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas. 1995. DK759.G5 G7 1995 Mamonova, Tatyana, ed.. Women and Russia: Feminist Writings from the Soviet Union. 1984. Potok, Chaim. The Gates of November. 1996. PS3566.O69 G38 1996 Ramet, Sabrina Petra, ed.. Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics. 1984. BL65.N3 R45 1984 Reddaway, Peter, Uncensored Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union. 1972. Ryback, Timothy W. Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. 1989. Rywkin, Michael, Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia. 1982. DK859 .R98 Saunders, George. Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition. 1974. DK274 .S32 Shatz, Marshall S. Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective. 1980. DK274 .S393 Yanov, Alexander. The Russian New Right. 1978. DK274 .Y39 T 3/13 Perestroika and the Unraveling of the U.S.S.R. Film: Prisoner of the Mountains (1997) 99 mins. Required readings: Suny, 403-33; 438-475 SM: 1986: The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident 1991: End of the Soviet Union “Statistical Report” (Results of the work of the KGB in investigating authors of anonymous materials of a hostile nature). 1988. http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/af2bdlit.html Recommended readings: Barker, Adele Marie, ed. Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev. 1999. DK510.762 .C66 1999 Boym, Svetlana. Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia. 1994. DK266.4 .B69 1994 Condee, Nancy, ed. Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth Century Russia. 1995. Gorbachev, Mikhail. Memoirs. 1996. DK290.3.G67 A3 1996 __________. Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World. 1987. DK289 .G675 1987 Lahusen, Thomas, with Gene Kuperman, eds.. Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. 1993. Lewin, Moshe. The Gorbachev Phenomenon. 1988. DK286 .L48 1988 Lieven, Dominic, The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Path to Independence. 2nd ed. 1994. Marples, David. Ukraine under Perestroika. 1992. Perestroika, History, and Historians. Special issue of the Journal of Modern History 62, 4 (Dec. 1990). (JSTOR) Remnick, David. Lenin’s Tomb. 1993. DK288 .R46 1993 Ries, Nancy. Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika. 1997. P35.5.S65 R54 1997 Tuller, David. Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia. 1996. HQ76.3.R8 T85 1996 Urban, Michael with Andrei Evdokimov. Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times. 2004. R 3/15 “Transition to Democracy”? Required readings: Suny, 476-532 F 3/23 Final Exam, 1:10-4:00 p.m. Attachment A: Analytical Essay Guidelines Mechanics: Length: 12-15 pages of text Format: Typed, 12 pt. font 1-inch margins Double spacing Documentation: Endnotes or footnotes Bibliography (Secondary and Primary Sources) Scope: Essays should address some aspect of imperial Russian history (1682-1917). Students will select a research topic in consultation with me during the first two weeks of the quarter. Description: Analytical essays require: • • • • contextualization of your study with regard to time and place consideration of arguments made by authors of the major secondary sources on your topic or related topics (i.e., historiography) independent analysis of primary sources complete, correct documentation* Typically the strongest essays make use of a broad array of secondary sources (e.g., scholarly monographs and articles, encyclopedia articles, reputable websites) and extensive use of primary sources (e.g., memoirs, diaries, letters, government documents, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, images, music, film, artifacts). * For proper citation format consult either of the following for humanities style footnotes or endnotes (NOT in-text citations): Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th rev. ed., Chicago, 1996 The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th rev. ed., Chicago, 2003 Having problems, go to: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/tools.html or http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html Attachment B: Websites Bucknell University’s Russian Studies http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/index.html Forced Labor Camps http://www.osa.ceu.hu/gulag/ History of the Soviet Union http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/webcours/russia/links/ Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Russian Revolution http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook39.html Marxists.org Internet Archive http://www.marx.org/ The Moscow Times http://www.themoscowtimes.com/indexes/01.html Revelations from the Russian Archives http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html Russian and Soviet History Resources http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/hickey/Russian%20and%20Soviet%20History%20Resource% 20Page.htm#History Russian Film: What Was and What Is http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue09/features/russia2/ Russian Revolution on the Web Guide http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html The St. Petersburg Times http://www.sptimes.ru/ Seventeen Moments in Soviet History http://www.soviethistory.org/ Sher’s Russian Web http://www.websher.net/ Soviet Archives Exhibit http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html Maps: Historical Maps of Russia and the Former Soviet Union http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_commonwealth.html Bibliographies: Bibliographic Research Guide to Soviet History http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/biblioguide.htm Bibliography for Women in Russia http://www.h-net.org/~russia/bibs/bibwom.html Russian History Index (Worldwide Web Virtual Library) http://vlib.iue.it/hist-russia/bibliography.html Attachment C: Film Review Guidelines Historians of the modern era have an abundance of media for critically examining the past, including feature films and documentaries. Here are a few things to keep in mind when assessing such documents as primary sources: Who directed the film? When was it made? How does the director use artistic devices and production techniques (e.g., lighting, stage design, makeup, camera angles, choreography) to enhance entertainment value and/or understanding? Most importantly… In what ways does the film reflect the social, political, and cultural environment of the era in which it was made? How does the film contribute to scholarly debates discussed in your readings and lectures? Attachment D: Historiographic Essay Guidelines Mechanics: Length: 6-8 pages of text Format: Typed, 12 pt. font 1-inch margins Double spacing Bibliography (and footnotes as needed) Scope: Historiographic essays typically offer a thorough review of 4 or more articles and books that address major issues and interpretations (i.e. historiography) for a specific historical period or problem. In preparing these assignments students should select from among recommended readings. * For proper citation format consult either of the following for humanities style footnotes or endnotes (NOT in-text citations): Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th rev. ed., Chicago, 1996 The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th rev. ed., Chicago, 2003 Having problems, go to: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/tools.html or http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html
